THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 29, 1912.
WATCH TO WE R O B S E RVATIGNS
Material and Immaterial Syllogisms
on Sport by Koscoe Fawcett
"Luther McCarty Need Practice No Longer With the Lariat, as His Manager Has Demonstrated That He Can Throw the Bull" Abe's Philosophy.
rm ST It came to pass In the latter
days of the reign of G. O. P. and
"on the 21st of the month. In the
year of our Lord, up to date, that the
- wise men from the various fountains
Y'of learning In the empire of Lewis
and Clark gathered themselves to
gthr within the walls of the inner
'court of a temple of much knowledge
' located on one of the 70 hills In
city called Seattle, there to deliberate
and meditate upon rules, regulations
: and schedules concerning the welfare
of matters athletic in the domain lo-
cated only slightly above salt water,
namely the states of Washington, Ore
gon and Idaho.
Felah!
. Now, as is the time-worn custom,
' these wise men. known to the con
stituency as graduate managers, wot
not what to do. And so wotting each
secretly set himself to do the other
five, and so It was that much outward
harmony and peacefulness reigned
ovr the grave assembly.
Now, It came to pass that two of the
brethren cast covetous eyes upon the
milking of the Seattle football public
upon Thanksgiving day, these covet
ous brethren being the wise men from
. the outlylnsr districts of Corvaills and
Pullman. And, like rival bidders at
, , the auction block, these brethren fell
.down below each other's offers salaam-
ing, while the gavel wlelder, who was
the Seattle dome of Intellect, smoe a
Lake Union mosquito that sought to
' drill Into his donfe and chuckled au
. ditly.
If It please your hlgness I would
like to secure the Thanksgiving foot
- ball game In Seattle," spake the Ore
..,'gon Agricultural assemblyman hum
L bly. "Thou speaketh In parables,"
caltb King Zcdnlck. taking a hitch In
-his corrugated vertebrae. "The stu
dents of our grand and glorious in
"stitutlon have been unaccustomed from
childhood up to your demand for a 60
, per cent cut of the receipts. Fifty per
cent cannot be."
And so the bidding waxed fast and
furious and it was finally recorded that
the Washington State College fondle
, the milk bottle at a flat guarantee of
S1500, which was $500 less than the
Pullmanltcs received In the year of
" our Lord 1912, when Washington net
ted only a paltry S3500 above expenses
for the surplus fund.
And Zednlck chuckled Inwardly once
more at the auctioneeerlng and smiled
a healthy $590 smile as he later at
tached his signature to a baleful 50
. per cent parchment, giving the Oregon
Aggies a game on October 25. And
thus one more jewel attached Itself to
the diadem of consistency.
- Selah!
per cent be also applied to King Zed
nick's football schedule."
And it came to pass that as this
bolt of lightning flashed across the
Washington sky of azure there came
walling and much gnashing of dentis
try In the Zednlck corner. "Never In
history since the Paleodoodle period,
has so bitter and acrimonious an at
tack been made upon the financed of
the Varsity of Kane." rasped the king,
as across the court of the temple there
flashed a dome of Intellect as bright as
a diamond, for It wore no hair, "I
am opposed to all 50 per cent divisions.
Wot not that I had spoken of basket
hall." t
"Behold the baldhead," srake the
learned medico, laughingly, "they
grow up and produce little foliage."
"Josh not," saith Archie Hahn, of the
Missionary school of Whitman, "for'lt
is written that the head is a storehouse
for brains and not a loafing place for
hair. The king Is not yet altogether
baldheaded."
- And Zednlck was silent. Selah.
1 ND It came to pass that the Oregon
" Aggies hath one sport In which its
box office waxeth fat. And so Man
ager Geary, of Oregon, cast covetous
1'pyes upon the basketball revenues, say
ing that the tribes of Corvaills should
be willing to filter the bulky bullion
into two equal portions.
"Is It not so?" said Geary, address-
ing his appraisement toward King Zed
nick, he who reigns with a cast-Iron
"hard encas"d In kid gloves. "Just so,"
. answereth Zednlck. "Be it In all Just
ness, the epistles of basketball should
..call for an equal division of the spoils,
because the Oregon Agricultural Col-
- lege doth draw in more currency than
the rfst."
' And It Was even so almost.
"It that be the sentiment encompas
sing this body of wise men I humbly
--acquiesce.'' replteth Dr. Stewart, the
parliamentary Charlemagne from Cor
vallis. . "So If it please your highnesses
to order 50 Dcr cent compartments for
basketball I would recommend that 50
OW there came before the assem
bly many other bills of much Im
portance, likewise a dragon of most
frightful m'.en, which answered to the
pet name of "Summer Baseball." And
It was despatched judiciously and
speedily on the first vote by Washing
ton, which had no professional baseball
men to benefit.
And the throwing i Of the hammer
was thrown out of the track meets
when it became known that Oregon
possessed a couple of nifty heavers of
the festive hammer who stood most
likely to mash the spectators' beant
at the Walla Walla track meet.
And as they spake a roaring was heard
echoing outward from the quagmires
and cesspools of Walla Walla and the
learned wise man from that unenlight
ened district held up his whltewas.ied
hands in holy horror and said: Oregon
maketh too much milk and honey from
her Multnomah football game. Whit
man cannot land a Thanksgiving plum.
This should not be. The spirit of Wal-
lulah cries out against it.
And it was almost even so again.
The hearts of the good men turned in
wrath against the Oregon octopus
which wfggleth its feelers about the
necks of the rival "colleges in re the
Multnomah game.
"Our Whitman brother Is right."
spake Johnny Bender, of Washington
'tate, who speaketh much. "I will vote
to prohibit it unless High Chief Geary
agrees to place my seat of learning
upon the football pyre of 1913, which
means many shekels of the realm for
the Pullmanl tes."
And there was consternation in the
breasts of the Oregon brethren. But
the quaking was of short duration, for
Chief Geary suddenly recalled that he
had already attached his hellographlng
to a three-year contract with Multno
mah, which no conference was able to
shatter.
And so the wise men were foiled
once more, and they who wot not what
to do continued to wot for a couple of
hours longer. 1
And then the graduate managers
lighted cigars and went out from the
temple of much knowledge back to
their constituencies with gladness and
hallelujahs. So closeth the 1912 com
mencing of the colleges of Lewis and
Clark.
Selah!
V HEN college athletic - managers
w
have to work overtime.
ESTERN League team owners will
likely find themselves without
a president on January 1, for tney
have decreed that President Tip O'Neill
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l THK ONLY REAL WHITE MAN'S HOI'Ef
r. .
MeOurk In Philadelphia Record.
THIS IS IT.
hall move -his offices from Chicago
to some class A city. Tipperary says
he will resign rather than move, so
't appears to be up to the Westerners
to rescind their action or look else
where for a Moses to lead them out
of the wilderness.
From this distance it would appear
that the Western League Is pulling
something of a prize bonehead play
O'Neill is a good baseball business man
ind the Western League needs the
black-mustached harp far worse than
laid harp needs the Western League.
He has won recognition for the West
ern that could not have been won with
out him.
If Tip refuses to fall in line with
the belligerent magnates' whim and
throws up the sponge. It's a safe bet
that 1913 will find him holding down
some official swivel chair for Charley
omiskey's Chicago White Sox. Tip
sticks to Commy like the fingers on a
i.and.
W"1
HILE the hen is sitting round In
er boudoir reading Christmas
stories and the roosters are coming
home with so many Toms and Jerries
that they cannot crow anything but
hent crows, it is possible for the care
ful housewife to make a New Year's
spice cake without eggs. At earnest
solicitation we 'give our favorite
recipe:
One' cup of sugar, three-fourths cup
of lard, two cups of sour milk, one
ieaipoon each of allspice -and cinna
mon and flour to make a stiff batter
and fruit, if liked; mix in order given.
This makes a good as well as stiff
cake. It is good enough for anybody
.vhile the hen Is celebrating the holi
days. . .
DE WITT VAN COURT, the Los An
geles boxing sharp, joins in John
J. McCloskey's anthem against the
blond athlete.. De Witt looked over the
tawny figure of Al Palzer at Vernon
the other day, praised his columnar
neck, his aeroplane ears, said he was
of the fiber that kings were made of
hack in the days when a man brained
his way to a throne, and then, sudden
ly. Van discovered that Al had blond
locks.
"Spoils the picture," bemoaned Van
Court. "I have never yet seen a blond
lighter who could stand the gaff."
There were several suffragettes not
far away that this statement, were it
not limited, would discourage greatly.
FR a man who has been absolutely
banished from Pacific Coast League
i aseball, Ed Walter, of the Oaks. Is
doing excellent so far as getting his
name into the San Francisco newspa
pers is concerned.
WHEN Freddy Welsh won from Me
hegan recently in England one
British writer attributed the victory to
his "rough, American style of milling
picked up during his visits to the
United States." The writer, like other
Englishmen, appeared much perturbed
over Freddie's rudeness, which evident
ly upset their regular diet of stand up,
hit, and break clean flailing.
Imagine Freddy Welsh acting rough
and Jim Flynn headed over toward Al
bion, too. Wait until those dainty Eng
lish dudes see the fireman pawing
around the canvas, and It's plain that
Freddy's vindication will be complete.
Flynn will have his opponents scaling
the box seats most of the time If they
deem Welsh an exponent of the rough
stuff.
The chances are, however, that Flynn
will not be allowed to commit. mayhem
when he crosses the pond, for the ref
erees over there never hesitate about
disqualifying & boxer for rule infringe
ments.
But Lord Meerschaum, Duke Cam
membert and Marquis of .Anglesey, not
to mention Eugene Corrl and some oth
ers famous in English fisticuffs, are
sure to get a couple of minutes of
spasrr. if they ever turn the Pueblan
loose against a perfumed costermonger,
"A
William Shakespeare in an idle
moment as he sat for two hours and
watched a wrestling match. Shakes
peare probably figured on Tom Mc
Donald's Seattle football men for supers.
CONTRARY to advance notices, the
Wendell Phillips High School foot
ball eleven does not lay claim to the
championship of the Middle West, The
Wendell Phillips eleven won the Chi
cago city championship, but suffered
defeat to Oak Park, the suburbans who
walloped Portland 6-5 a couple of sea
sons ago.
Oak Park added to the laurels of its
coach, Charles Zupke. by sincerely
drubbing a Boston team for the JCastern
title. ' Zupke was appointed coach at
the University of Illinois a few days
ago in recognition of his sterling serv
ices. Here in the Northwest there are two
high school coaches who have shown
themselves of college caliber. It is a
wonder that, while all these conference
wiseacres have been casting loving
eyes over the sagebrush, somebody
: asn't sighted the sails of those twe
good craft. Virgil Earl, coach of Wash
ington High, Portland, and Samuel
Moyer, coach of North High, Spokane
Both men are keen judges of men, able
strategists and of major league caliber.
COUNT BRUNETTA, of Italy, secre
tary of the international Olympic
committee and a fighter, according to
the Van Court standards. Is authority
for the statement that Rome is after
the 1920 Olympiad. The Italians prac
tically have the promise and are al
ready making preparations for the big
event on the assumption that they will
get it. Chili is said to be figuring on
the 1932 Olympiad and the government
has ordered extra portions of con
came for all grammar school athletes.
COMMENTING on the fact that the
Chicago Cubs reached first base
n four balls oftener than any other
National League club, a Windy City
headline reads: "Cubs Best Waiters In
Major League." If Charley Murphy
!iad the right dope on his highball dis
closures the headwrlter erred. What
ho probably meant was: "Chicago Cubs
Best for Waiters in Major League."
IF winr
seem
GIRL LEADS ROOTING
University of Washington King
Shares Honors.
CO-ED IS CROWNED QUEEN
Miss Vera Johnson, Freshman. Wln
ning Favors From Urper Classes
by Directing Noise-Making of
" Other Fair Students. .
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Seat
tle. Dec 28. (Special.) "A Rooter
-- Queen!" That's the latest Innovation
in the athletic realms of the University
of Washington and of the country's
other educational institutions, for Miss
Vera Johnston, a stunning, blue-eyed
freshman co-ed from Aberdeen. Wash.,
-has startled the Washington men and
women by her ability to organize the
.women's cheering by her readiness to
.invest spirited yells and songs and her
. talent to lead the co-ed noisemakers
with unique physical gyrations.
Will Horsley. whose success in lead
ing the Purple and Gold delegation of
- rooters caused The Portland oregonlan
to crown him Ail-American Yell King
. after the Oregon-Washington game in
- the Rose City two years ago, has been
forced by popular campus opinion to
' share his noisy throne with his co-ed
' rival. And King Horsley's own men
grant her an eqnal claim to the regality
, vl the noisemakers. while all the girls
- ointaln that Miss Johnston Is a won
der as a rooter.
- Miss Johnston smiles coyly when
" asked how she came to try her hand
" at directing the women's rooting at
. their different class contests, fane is a
natural actress, and to this histrionic
ability and her keen appreciation of
originality is attributed her successful
' admission in Washington yell circles.
Her first appearance in her new role
came during a recent hockey game,
".-Which is the popular Winter sport for
women here.
Miss Johnston rallied the 1916 sup
porters around her and directed their
- concerted applause for their eleven
. with the contortions of a cabaret singer.
.At first she was leading them in giv
ing the class yell, but as quickly as
sh had assumed the position of root
" Ing conductor he began to Buggest
f parodies on university cheers and tunes
, appropriate for the first-year women.
. Melodies and skits of her own com
position followed at later athletic con
tests. Miss Johnston has an extremely
marked, artistic temperament, being an
accomplished musician and an able de
"votee of art and dramatics. Although
a freshman. Miss Johnston was elected
to the University Dramatic Society,
swhich chooses its members after a com.
"petitive test. While at Aberdeen High
"School she was in several theatrical
'casts which presented school playlets.
Miss Johnston, with her beautiful
features and manners, la one of the
' most popular members of the under
class social set ct the University of
''Washington. She was chosen this year
as one of the twelve freshmen girls
who are allowed to attend the annual
varsity ball given in honor of the "W."
winners. She is a pledge of the Pi
Beta Phi Sorority.
PACKEY M'FAHLAXD MISSIXG
Pugilist Mysteriously Disappears
From Chicago.
CHICAGO, Dec. 28. Friands are
searching today for Packey McFarland.
who has not been seen by his manager
or relatives since last Thursday after
noon when he left his home on the
South Side to catch a train for Omaha
where he was under contract to fight
Freddie Daniels, the following night.
He did not catch the train and as a
result, failed to appear for his fight
n Omaha last night.
Today his parents admitted that he
had mysteriously disappeared and that
they had no Idea what had become of
him.
WIFE SEEKS FIGHTER'S PCESE
Mrs. "Gunboat Smith" Sues for Di
vorce and Alimony.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28. "Gun
boat Smith." who won a decision last
night from Frank Moran, of Pittsburg,
did not collect his winnings today.
They are tied up by an injunction is
sued by Superior Judge Graham, at the
request of Mrs. EUnore C Smith, the
fighter's wife.
Mrs. Smith, who also filed a suit for
divorce, asks alimony of 3300 a month.
placing her husband's Income at J750
a month. She charges infidelity, aban
donment and failure to provide.
Boxer to Enter San Francisco.
Kid Exposlto, the Northwestern light
weight boxer, plans to invade the San
Francisco ring within a month. He ex
pects to work under the management
of Byron C. Parker.
RACE FEATURE EISUKED
FUTURE CHJIISTMAS SWIMS MAT
lXOT BE COMPETITIVE.
Director Cavill Says Athletes Keep
Out of Event Because of Fear of
Losing to Clnb Experts..
The abandonment of the race fea
ture of the annual Multnomah Club
Christmas swim is advocated by Artbu;
Cavill, Winged "M" swimming instruc
tor who is the father of the novel mid
winter aquatic event. The withdrawal
of many prospective entries because of
the impossibility or winning resulted
in a field of only six starters Wednes
day and Cavill would make the feature
in the nature of a frolic rather than a
race. '
"The Christmas swim was started as
a Multnomah Club Winter swim at
traction, not as a race for the speed
champions of Portland and vicinity,"
says Cavill. "Many swimmers who
woulu otherwise enter are deterred be
cause of the competitive, feature, and
the starters have decreased in number
each year. Next year I would like to
have this competition eliminated. If
no trophies are offered to the winner
and some sort of medal or button given
to every starter the swim would be
back at its eld place merely a Win
ter plunge into the river to prove
what a fine c'.imate Oregon has."
While the Multnomah Club instructor
is confident that Johnny McMurray, the
youth who won the Christmas day swim
in the remarkable time of 55 1-5 sec
onds, will become a world record hold
er In a few years, he does not believe
that his protege can swim 100 yards
in less than 1 minute and 4 seconds
now. Cavill believes that an extremely
strong current and a higher temper
ature of the water was responsible for
the clipping of IVi seconds from the
mark held by Lewis Thomas. The
temperature of the water Wednesday
was about 50 degrees, while that of
previous years ranged around 38 and
40 degrees.
"We have a grand little swimmer in
McMurray, but I am claiming no pre
posterous records for him Just now,"
says Cavill.
BURXS WILL BATTLE WELLS
GIRL TELL LEASER OF UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
I vy v
Pugilists Will Clash at Calgary on
March 14. -
CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 28. Ar
angements have been completed for a
.5-round boxing contest between Bom
oardier Wells, English heavyweight
-hampion. and Tommy Burns, who
claims the championship of the world
since the forced retirement of Jack
Johnson. The mill is to be held in Cal
gary, March 14, for a purse of $37,000,
a local syndicate financing the affair.
Burns has been flooded with offers to
get back into the game both from tne
United States and Canada, and as he
was the last heavyweight champion
previous to the retirement of the negro,
he will claim that title and the bout
will be for the heavyweight champion
ship of the world.
Burns had intended starting training
the first of the year with a purpose of
challenging the winner of the Palzer
McCarty match, but the syndicate offer
looks better than he could expect from
American promoters. In case Burns
wins over Wells, he will defend the
title against any white heavyweights.
The bout -has been under consideration
for some time, but not until yesterday
could terms be arranged with the Eng
lish champion. It is understood Burns
will receive 325,000 of the proposed
purse. .
Merkle Sued for Damages.
TOLEDO, O., Dec. 28. Frederick C.
Merkle, first baseman for the New
York Giants, was sued today in Lucas
County Common Pleas Court for 15000
damages by Peter B. Garrett, a bar
tender, who alleges that in a saloon
row Merkle knocked out several of
his teeth.
CREW 1XPERTS WANTED
PROFESSIONALS TO COACH
OARSMEX.
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Stanford and California Decide to
Follow Washington in Abolishing
the Graduate Director.-
MISS VERA JOHNSTON.
BIRTHDAY CONGRATULATIONS.
Willie Kolrtunalnen.
William Kolehmalnen. the profes
sional runner, and brother of Hannes
Kolehmalnen, the Swedish Olympic
star, was bora In Kuoplo, Finland,
December 29. 1888. He started in
the running game as an amateur in
his native village several years ago,
but soon grew tired of "medal win
ning" and joined the professional
ranks. Though -he had won numer
ous races he did . not come into
prominence until January 2 of this
year, when he won the Powder Hall
Marathon, emblematic of the cham
pionship of the world, at Edinburgh.
While running In Scotland he won
tour races In one day, the distances
being one-half mile, one, two and
ten miles. Since arriving In Amer
ica las Fall Kolehmalnen has de
feated many well-known runners,
among them Hans Holmer and Billy
QueaL In winning the professional
championships Marathon at Newark
last October the Flnlander estab
lished a new world's record, 2 hours,
29 minutes and 39 1-5 seconds for
the distance of 26 miles, 3S3 yards.
BERKELEY, Cal.. Dec. 28 (Special.)
Both Stanford University -and the
University of California have decided
to abolish the graduate coach system In
the development of their varsity crews
and employ professional coaches. Last
year Washington was the only Coast
college to have the services of a pro
fessional coach. Stanford and Cali
fornia are following in the wake of the
Seattle institution. Graduate coaches
have been found to be a failure at the
two varsities.
California is after the services of
Captain John Hoyle, assistant coach at
Cornell for many years. Hoyle is also
famous as a boat builder. He has been
aiding Courtney In the development of
championship Cornell crews for the
past 10 years. Hoyle is complete mas
ter of the successful system used by
Courtney, and is the one man to bring
California back to her former place In
intercollegiate rowing. For the pur
pose of securing Hoyle to come to the
Coast Captain-elect Arthur Eaton is
now at Cornell endeavoring to have
Hoyle put his name to a contract, which
it is said calls for the biggest salary
ever paid a rowing coach on the Pa
cific Coast. Eaton has wired to Gradu
ate Manager Donald that the prospects
of landing Hoyle look bright.
Pat O Dee, famous as an oarsman and
football player at the University of
Wisconsin- back in 1895, has been of
fered the position of rowing coach at
Stanford, and, according to Stanford en
thusiasts, w!ll accept the offer. O'Dea
is practicing law in San Francisco. Ever
since his arrival on the Coast, five years
ago, he has taken a keen interest in
ners followed as nature would
to have pre-ordained them.
Italy, with her stiletto wlelders would
easily take the Javelin throw at the
1916 Olympic games; the Russians
would have a 10-ton grip on the shot
put; the swimming events, instead of
the distance runs, would be the Finn
headlines; Delmonlco would hoist his
number of years O'Dea served as ad
visory coach to the Wisconsin footbai:
.earn and varsity crew.
STADIUM IS TO BE BUILT
epicurean colors over the discus event,
and, as for the hammer throw, well, if
opportunity knocks but once opportun
ity has several children scattered about
in every community who might seera
eminently equipped for the Job.
AFTER reviewing carefully the past
12 months it can be said without
fear of contradiction from Ad Wolgast,
Jim Flynn. William Taft, Walter Mc
Credle. Jack-Johnson, Theodore Roose
velt, Danny Long, Al Kaufman and
Hank O'Day that the year of 1912 was
not the distinct social success of many
of its predecessors. Fie on all the
reports to the contrary.
PEATURING the Government's suit
against the butter trust, an East
ern headline writer somberly wrote:
"Getting the Goat of the Butter
Trust."
After the courts and legal lights
have churned the matter over for four
or five years this same writer will bo
exuding something like this:
"Who Put the 'Butt-ruse" in the But
ter Trust?"
BOXING Bible classes are to be in
troduced into New York by A. J.
urexel Biddle, the Philadelphia mil
lionaire mitt man. Joe Rivers, just
rushing Eastward on his first Jaunt
to New York, will be eligible to tha
ight weight Bible class if the State
Athletic Commission's scale goeB for
B.'ddle's Biblical conglomeration.
gon's football team?" served as
he subject for a heated, alumni dis
cussion the other night in Portland.
Washington appears to furnish the an
swer.
ON'E prime benefit derived from tha
Liansfer of the Vernon Coast
League club to Venice, a beach resort,
has been generally overlooked by the
.vriters. Hogan will have to buy new
oad uniforms for his Hooligans.
PORTLAND masculinity has been
having much fun at the failure of
.he first feminine Jury in Oregon to
igree on a decision. Just as if the
men always agree. In Denver a local
parliamentarian was drawn on the Jury.
He was new at the business.
"Your honor," said the lawyer for
the plaintiff, addressing the judge.
several of our witnesses are unable to)
be present this morning. We feel cer
tain that they can be on hand Wednes
day. I desire to make a motion that
this case be continued until Wednes
day."
Before the court had time to pass on
the motion the new Juror arose. "Your
honor," he said, "I second the motion."
CODFISH aristocrats are at it every
where. ' Wllle Hoppo, a boxer, is
mixing up in the ring game at San
Francisco; Young Ty Cobb is a New
York exponent and Knockout Brown,
III boxed In Milwaukee before the
Eagles club a few nights back.
A KENT the GIbbons-McGoorty fight:
They rap each other on the mush,
And slap upon the chin,
They pause to figure out the cusb.
They may have taken in.
For he who fights and stalls away
May get another purse some day.
Big Amphitheater Will Cost $50,000
to Construct.
BERKELEY, Cal., Dec. 28. (Spe
ial.) Plans have been drawn for a
new athletic stadium at the University
of California, which is to be erected
at a cost of $50,000. The recently con
structed athletic fields at Cambridge,
Mass., and Yale University have been
used ps models. Work on the stadium
will begin in June, 1913, and the sta
dium will be ready by 1915. California
will make a bid for the Amateur Ath
etic Union track and field champion
ships, which have been awarded to
San Francisco during the Panama-Pa-slflc
Exposition. The exposition of
ficials have no objection to the games
being held at Berkeley.
The stadium will consist of a foot
ball field, baseball diamond, a cinder
track and oval and will be surrounded
by tennis courts.
California has long felt the want or
a first-class running track. The pres
ent track at Berkeley Is inadequate
for championship meets. The track is
not even the regulation size, being less
than 320 yards around. One of the
worst features of the track Is the need
of running the 2i0-yard dash and the
220-yard low hurdles on a curved track.
fhe new running oval will provide tor
220-yard straightaway track.
The funds necessary for the erection
of the stadium are now . being raised
by a committee of graduates, cons'it-
ing of Dr. Roy Woolsey. Milton Fartiier
and William Donald, graduate man
ager.
II 005
E MAY VIE
Owner of Motorboat Wants to
Have Chance at Prize.
OREGON WOLF IS IN TRIM
Swastika Shows Sfteed Enough to
Assure Hard Itace on New
Year's Day When Fast
Crafts Meet on Klvcr. j
Watklns Meet Lents Today.
Independent football will be prac
tically at a standstill today, the only
game being between the Frank E.
Watklns eleven and the Lents aggrega
tion. The game will be staged at
Lents. This will be one of the three
last games of the Archer & Wiggins
Football League. Next Sunday the
Albtna Juniors will meet the Lents
team and the week following the
WHERE MAJOR LEAGUE CLUBS WILL PREPARE FOR 1913
BASEBALL CAMPAIGN.
American League.
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Philadelphia San Antonio, Tex.
Detroit.
Chicago
New ork
Cleveland . . . . .
Waf hington. . .
Boston
St. Louis
New York....
Chicago
Fhl'.auelphla. .
Brooklyn.
Pittsburg.
Cincinnati. .
St. Louis.
. . Gulfoort. .Miss.
. ...Paso, Roblet, Cat.
. . . .Bermuda
. .. .Pensacola," Fla.
....Charlottesville, Va.
.. ..Hot Springs. Ark.
...St. Louis (?)
National League.
. ...Matlin. Tex.
. . . Florida
Hot Springs' (?)
. ... Columous. Ga. (?)
. .- Hot Springs, Ark.
, Mobile. Ala.
..Columbus. Ga.
Boston Athens, Ga.
(?)
1912.
Sau Antonio, Tex.
Monroe. La.
Waco, Tex.
Atlanta, Ga.
Mobile. Alu.
Charlottesville, Va.
. Hot Springs, Ark.
St. Louis.
Martin, Tex.
-New Orleans. La.
Hot Springs, Ark.
Hot Springs, Ark,
West Badtn and
Hot Springs.
Columbus. Ga.
St. Louis, Mo.
Augusta. Ga.
college rowing activities and was ref
eree of the triangular regatta between
Washington, California and Stanford
last Spring. O'Dea rowed on four Wis
consin crews at the Poughkeepsle re
gattas, and before entering the Badger
institution, rowed on several champion
ship crews in Australia. He is prob-
bly the best versed man on trie coast
in the Eastern rowing matters. For a
Alblna Juniors and the Watklns team
will meet again. The Watklns team
entered a protest against the Alblna
Juniors in lieu of the game last Sun
day which settled the championship of
the league in favor of Alblna team
last Sunday. However, the directors of
the Archer & Wiggins League met
during the week and decided not to
allow the protest.
The Vamoose, one of the three boats
n the New Year's day championship
race, is expected to perform with such
credit that Captain Milton Smith wants
to take a share In the pot which tha
owners of the Swastika and the Ore-
gon Wolf, the two other boats, hava
put up.
When the race was first talked of.
a month ago, John C. Wolff, builder
of the Oregon Wolf, and R. F. Cox, ono
of the owners of the Swastika, wanted
Smith to enter the Rainier boat with
a side bet, but Smith refused to take
a hand.
At the time the matter of an engine
was his trouble, Jis own being in the
factory in the East. He proceeded to
borrow the engine of the Wigwam II,
the Astoria champion, and the first
tryout with the new engine will be
held Saturday afternoon.
Smith Offers to Act.
The Wigwam's motive power ' is
known to be dependable under tne
hand of a good engineer and Smith has
confidence enough In his present plant
to wager 250 on the outcome. If the
jther two agree to let him in. the pot
would be $750, a bigger prize than was
put up at any of the water meet of
the past season.
The Oregon Wolf Is ready for the
race today. Wolff has been telling all
his friends that he has been getting
the boat In the best of shape. Today
the boat is In the same condition that
it was on the day of the last race, in
September.
Before the Astoria Regatta Wolff
covered the whole hull with canvas to
keep the water out. This was found to
3e an impediment and so It was ripped
off two weeks ago. This made tha
?hell leak worse than ever, so Wolff
bored some more holes to let th
water out.
Hull Dry at Top Speed.
These holes are closed when the boat
standing still, but as soon as it
gains headway they are opened and
the suction of the water outside keeps
the hull dry.
The last tryout will be held Sunday
noon on the upper harbor. The Swas
tika has been out regularly, making it
latest appearance on Christmas day. It
is in the best of trim, the engine hum
ming like an electric motor, just as
regular. The Irregularity was the
weak point of the boat in the past and
if the engine will run In the New
Year's race as it has in the rehearsals,
the Oregon Wolf will have to run to
keep ahead of the "Cracker Box," aa
the Cox boat is called by the fans.